Craig Brozefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > SP supports this and it would even make the building of our parser > interface and tree comparison code easier. I didn't want to introduce > Formal Architectures, because I wanted to keep the complexity down, > but I think that if we do statically define wether an element is > always floating or structural we severely limit the usefullness.
Can you talk a bit about the nature of this limitation? I just don't see it as that big of an issue. > Correct, but the creator of the master document cannot assume that > his assumption about the relation of the text to the paragraph is the > same across all languages being targeted for translation. For all he > knows a vertical layout is used for some language, and tables and > images are printed in a seperate column to the side. So the previous > proposal would have required him to make P and TABLE floating for the > entire document. This example is a bit of a stretch, but I'm hungry > and unimaginative at the moment. I don't buy this [yet]: If the layout is that different you can't rely on the document structure being the same, either. Anyways, Debian documents tend to have a rather straight-forward structure without a lot of fancy layout -- we have a practical need to support a variety of media, and you just shoot yourself in the foot if you try to get overly elaborate about this. In my opinion, this is a portability issue, and you can't sanely tackle portability issues without real examples of the issues. Thanks, -- Raul
